Mild About Harry
Love-crazed wizardlets make for a ho-hum Potter outing
(July 23, 2009) Previews
Opening Friday, July 24, is Disney’s 3-D mix of live action and animation G-Force about a team of government-trained guinea pigs out to save the world. With voices of Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz and others. Rated PG for some mild action and rude humor. 120m. At the Broadway, Fortuna and Mill Creek.
Opening to a threatened boycott by adoption groups, Orphan is a horror thriller about a couple who adopt a young girl after losing their unborn child. It’s probably not going to work out well. With Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard. Rated R for disturbing violent content, some sexuality and language. 123m. At the Broadway and Mill Creek.
The romantic comedy The Ugly Truth stars Katherine Heigl as romantically clueless TV producer Abby, who accepts advice from her macho TV host Mike (Gerard Butler) about how to land a handsome and sensitive doctor. Gosh, I wonder who will end up together? Rated R for sexual content and language. 101m. At the Broadway and Mill Creek.
Authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) investigate the corporate food industry in the documentary Food, Inc. I’m probably already genetically modified. Rated PG for some thematic material and disturbing images. 94m. At the Minor.
I’m up at the Eureka Library with Otto Preminger’s 1944 noir Laura starring Gene Tierney. Tuesday, July 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Reviews
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE: In my preview for the sixth entry in the Harry Potter film series, I mentioned that I had increasingly enjoyed the series as it had gotten darker. Although still a very enjoyable film experience, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince represents a bit of a speed bump in the progression.
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